wide-awake

Example Sentences

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She does provide intricate detail about, for instance, how the station’s drinking water gets recycled from everyone’s urine, or how “the wide-awake, always-awake station vibrates with fans and filters.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023

Anthony Amsterdam was in California and wide-awake in the predawn hours on June 29, 1972, glued to the news as he awaited word from the U.S.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2022

According to the wide-awake folks at Partners Coffee, the ideal ratio of coffee to water is 1:15.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2022

She was back to deuce with Arthur Ashe Stadium abuzz and presumably most of Britain wide-awake, as the match was broadcast in prime time in Raducanu’s home country.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2021

I’m fully dressed and wide-awake and it’s one of those moments when you just know that things are going to get worse.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon